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I wish they would stay marble. 'You don't approve of the transformation? 'Oh, Japs, is it true? Mysie, you know the statue at Rotherwood, where Pig-my-lion made a stone figure and it turned into a woman. 'Yes; but it was a woman and this is a man. Mysie began an exposition of classic fable to her little sister, while Mrs.
Halfpenny explained that this came of Christian folk setting up heathen idols in their houses as 'twas a shame for decent folk to look at, let alone puir bairnies; while Jasper and Gillian gasped in convulsions of laughter, and bandied queries whether their aunt were the statue 'Pig-my-lion' had animated, as nothing could be less statuesque than she, whether the reverse had taken place, as Primrose observed, and she had been the Pygmalion to awaken the soul in the man of marble.
'He could not have had many doubts, said Gillian. 'Does Kalliope know? 'I cannot tell; I think he has probably told her. 'He must have met Primrose there, said Jasper. 'Poor Prim! And the offence and the Pig-my-lion story were duly related, much to Aunt Jane's amusement.
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